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Simply A Masterpiece

How sad is this?

Excellent but underrated film

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Robert Wise has directed many great movies, different genres, I've seen almost all of them. Musical ("West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music"), History ("Helen of Troy"), Horror ("The Haunting"), Drama ("Somebody Up There Likes Me" and "Two for the Seesaw"), etc. He also directed another very good Sci-Fi, "The Andromeda Strain". This "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", with its original cast, with an original story and the contest of masters such as Isaac Asimov, Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra, is a great achievement.

The pressure was on to do something great and pressure does strange things to people, places and things. Coal can turn into a diamond under pressure but the pressure here to turn out a hit using the success of the series worked against it. We wanted to see the characters unleashed and free to do whatever they wanted based on what they previously did. The story lacked and I am surprised for this as the original series had so many unique and interesting stories to tell making one wonder why they didn't use one of those? Well they ended up realizing this afterwards and did just that. They took the episode "space Seed" and turned it into The Wrath of Khan for Star Trek # 2. Also getting a Director with a passion makes a difference too. Eventually the series itself found its footing and had all its positive ducks lined up and did a nice run. Of course they had to end it as the characters were aging terribly. They left us in good condition however. When I first saw this, I was a Trekkie so I endured it to the end. But this is not a movie you would see again because it has no memorable scenes. Good snack movie with a tasty drink and if you want to visit with this please do because after all, it is a Star Trek movie and that makes it okay

I expected much more from this first "Star Trek" movie. The time was right to make this film after the television show became successful eventually. However, "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" is a big disappointment in my opinion. There isn't enough plot, there isn't much action, the film is too long and the tedium really stretches. It is good to see all the original cast members once again but surely a better film could have been made for them? The special effects may look good - which they do - but a film needs more than that (shades of how films tend to be these days).

Greetings Fans everywhere, Now if some of you watch Linkara's Atop the 4thwall Reviews, Then you'd know that he is a Star Trek Fan, Hens where we are today, This is a Review of the very first Movie from the Franchise, This is Star Trek the motion picture, Released back on December 7 in 1979 (Same year as Ridley Scott's Alien movie), For those who don't know Star Trek is a very interesting Scy-fy Seires from the Original Seires up to the Next Generation, D.S.9 and Voyager and for for some reason the Original show also had an Animated Series as well, Now there are a couple of Prequel Shows like Enterprise and Discovery, those including the Reboot movies that take place in an alternate time-line, But I'll get to them in another point in time, From what I heard on the Web this movie was... not the most successful on the ten original movies which we can say is the Stardate Collection from the six original series movies to the four Next Generation movies, I'll get to them in the Order it is in future Reviews... one sec, Hay Linkara, Didn't you do a review on the Comic Adaptation of this movie? Linkara: Yeah, Why? JWB: Just asking.I would talk about the cast here but that would only make my Review to long but you and always check out my full version on my Review Page on facebook (JWB's Reviews)After watching this from my Stardate collection on Blu-Ray as a 50th Annaversary, This was my response after watching it... WHAT THE GARBAGE WAS THIS MOVIE?! This was a mess and even though the cast where great at there roles like in the 1966 series, But sure the costumes didn't match what was shown in the show and the story was really convoluted but what really let's it down was its lack of action and over-reliance on special effects. no wonder it got mixed reviews from critics, But it was fortunate enough to get $139 million at the box office worldwide, But falling short of studio expectations but enough for Paramount to propose a cheaper sequel. So yeah Not the best way to start off a Movie series, but they got better later on as we face the Wrath of Khan!